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Microsoft expanded its Xbox Music service to Android and iOS devices via new apps for thosenplatforms, it said. The music service is nearing its one-year anniversary, Microsoft said Monday in annews release. Microsoft is also making free streaming on Xbox Music available via the Web, it said.nThe music service will also launch on the Xbox One console that’s shipping Nov. 22, said Jerry Johnson,ngeneral manager-Xbox Music. It’s already available on PCs and the Xbox 360. Subscribers getnunlimited access to music across all their devices for $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year, said Microsoft.nThe addition of free streaming on the Web gives subscribers access to 30 million songs globally fornfree on the online Xbox Music Web player or through the Xbox Music app on all Windows 8 tabletsnand PCs, it said. Xbox Music "will continue to grow and evolve over the coming months," it said.nThe company, for example, will add the existing Radio feature, previously called Smart DJ, to the freenWeb player, calling the feature a "quick and dynamic way to personalize" one’s music collection, discovernnew music and "create ultimate playlists by launching instant mixes based on" favorite musicnartists. Xbox Music will also "grow on Windows 8 when it adds the anticipated new Web Playlist toolnthis fall," it said. The tool scans all the artists and music available on a given Web page and creates ancustom playlist of all that music, it said. "In the coming months, additional updates" for iOS and Androidnwill become available, including an "offline mode" that lets users save music to their device fornplayback without a data connection, it said.